BERLINALE 2017
The 67th edition of La Berlinale opened on Thursday, February 9th. This year, ten films supported by the “Aide aux Cinémas du Monde”, a fund for international co-production (CNC/Institut français), will be presented throughout the festival. Félicité, by the French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis, is competing for the Golden Bear. The film The Wound, by South African director John Trengove, also participant of La Fabrique in 2014, is opening the Panorama section.
On 09 February 2017
L'ATELIER GRAND NORD
The 2017 edition of L'Atelier Grand Nord, a workshop and a singular place for meetings on the screenwriting of French-language feature films, took place from January 25th to February 2nd, 2017, in Quebec, Canada. Within the framework of the partnership established between the Institut français, the OIF and the SODEC, Mehdi Hmili was selected among fourteen other French-speaker authors for his project Solo.
On 25 January 2017
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
In 2017, two former participants of La Fabrique were present at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Cactus Flower, by Hala Elkoussy (La Fabrique 2015) was selected in the Bright Future section. The film Rey, by Niles Atallah (La Fabrique 2010) was in competition in the Hivos Tiger competition.
On 24 January 2017
FROM DUBAI TO AMSTERDAM: MOHAMED SIAM MO UNDER THE SPOTLIGHTS
Congratulations to Mohamed Siam Mo (La Fabrique 2016)! His documentary film project "Amal" is presented at the Dubai International Film Market. It's another great news after the selection of the project at the IDFA forum last November, as well as the selection of his previous documentary "Whose Country?" at the IDFA festival.
On 09 December 2016
2016 FRENCH CINEMA TROPHIES
Angèle Diabang, who was selected at La Fabrique in 2014 with her project "Une si longue lettre", received the prize for the Best Short Film at the French Cinema Trophies for her documentary "Congo, a doctor to save women"! Congratuliations!
On 07 December 2016
